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When we last left our friends at Speak, the world was coming to an end at the magazine's headquarters in San Francisco. Or so it seemed. In the Summer issue, publisher/editor Dan Rolleri wrote a...
View ArticleThe drapes of wrath
The first half of "Fight Club" feels like a remake of Woody Allen's 1978 film "Interiors" with the genders reversed. Where Allen's vanilla ice cream-looking study of Geraldine Page's cold beige rooms...
View ArticleOn sale at Old Navy: Cool clothes for identical zombies!
Thomas Frank walks by the candy-cane-adorned displays of Old Navy, passing the sign exclaiming "priced so low, you can't say no," and into the chain's San Francisco flagship store. The all-devouring...
View ArticleFurniture buyers of the world, unite!
Though it's still early on a Saturday morning, there are only three remaining parking spots among the hundreds in the lot at Ikea in this freeway-hugging "edge city" that spills over from Oakland....
View ArticleOn sale at Old Navy: Cool clothes for identical zombies!
Read the story Dude, chill out. It's a shirt, not a meta-statement of my soul. So where would these people have me buy clothes then? Overpriced boutiques? Salvation Army stores? If it comes from Old...
View ArticlePlastic fantastic bottle recycling
Intrigued by the news that IKEA plans to start charging its American customers 5 cents for each plastic bag, I started doing some research into the global plastics industry. But I was brought up short...
View ArticleIKEA is as bad as Wal-Mart
My mother still owns, and uses, the same vacuum cleaner she bought early in her marriage, just after World War II. She still lives in the house my father -- not a carpenter by trade, but an electrician...
View Article“Ikea, stop the Verdana madness!”
Forget about bogus health care reform townhall outrage: For a real grassroots rebellion, check out the firestorm protesting Ikea's decision to switch fonts in their online and printed catalogs.Time's...
View ArticleHow do you solve a problem like Ikea?
Not long ago I moved to Toronto, and during a recent dinner with a friend and his wife, the subject of my sleeping arrangements came up. By "sleeping arrangements," I mean the air mattress on the floor...
View ArticleInside the Ikea police state
Der Spiegel has corrected this story since it was published. The founder of Ikea, the international Swedish home furnishing chain, is one of the richest men in the world. Yet Ingvar Kamprad is widely...
View ArticleShuttle contractor lays off 1,400 workers
The private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be laid off in the fall.United...
View ArticleWeird news: Monkey wearing a coat found in Canadian IKEA store
TORONTO (AP) -- Shoppers at an Ikea store in Toronto weren't monkeying around when they reported a primate on the loose.Customers spotted a monkey - clad in a pint-sized shearling coat - wandering...
View ArticleIkea recalls chocolate cakes after fecal bacteria is detected
Sad lunchtime news: Only weeks after being outed for having traces of horse meat in their Swedish meatballs, furniture mega-retailer Ikea has recalled yet another food item from their shelves.This time...
View ArticleIKEA to sell (and even install) solar panels
IKEA, the Swedish furniture company known for its cheap, DIY-furniture basics is making moves into the solar panel market. After a successful test run in London, the retailer's decided to make its...
View ArticleIkea removes lesbian couple from its Russian catalogs
Ikea -- which is pretty progressive in terms of its representation of the furniture-buying public but is also a very large corporation that puts horse meat in its meatballs because it is cheap and...
View ArticleIkea France embroiled in spying scandal
Outrage in France is growing in the wake of allegations that the country's Ikea branch executives routinely hired private investigators to spy on current and prospective employees, a practice that is...
View ArticleIkea recalls chocolate cakes after fecal bacteria is detected
Sad lunchtime news: Only weeks after being outed for having traces of horse meat in their Swedish meatballs, furniture mega-retailer Ikea has recalled yet another food item from their shelves.This time...
View ArticleIKEA to sell (and even install) solar panels
IKEA, the Swedish furniture company known for its cheap, DIY-furniture basics is making moves into the solar panel market. After a successful test run in London, the retailer's decided to make its...
View ArticleIkea removes lesbian couple from its Russian catalogs
Ikea -- which is pretty progressive in terms of its representation of the furniture-buying public but is also a very large corporation that puts horse meat in its meatballs because it is cheap and...
View ArticleIkea France embroiled in spying scandal
Outrage in France is growing in the wake of allegations that the country's Ikea branch executives routinely hired private investigators to spy on current and prospective employees, a practice that is...
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